Fertilizer distributer and beater.



H. SYNGK.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER AND HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED APR 20. 1012,

1,053,547,, Patented Feb. 18,1913.

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FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER AND BEA'IER.

APPLICATION FILED APRLZU, 1912 1,053,547 Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

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HENRY SYNCK, OF COLDWATER, OHIO. ASSIGNOR TO NEW IDEA SPREADER COMPANY,

' OF COLDWATER, OHIO.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER AND HEATER.

To (1 'u-hom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hnsnr Srsck, a citizen of the United States. residing at Goldater. in the county of Mercer and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and uset'ul Improvenurnts in Fertilizer Distributors and Beaters, of which the following is a specificatitm.

My invention relates to distributing mechanism. and particularly to distributing and spreading devices for manure spreaders or like machines. Tn this class of devices it is pa1"'icularly necessary that means he provided for distributing the manure or compost lit rally in a swath greater than the width ot the wagon.

The primary object of my invention is to accomplish the lateral casting or distribution of the manure in a very simple and thoroughly etl'ective manner and further to provide. distributing mechanism having the form of paddles. teeth or like members, which though throwing the distributed material laterally, are always in alinement with or works squarely across the. bed of the material. This is a particularly important feature for the reason that when these paddlcs. teeth or like memlun's are used on a primary pulverizing cylinder or as a repulverizing and distributing device, it. is much b tter to have the members arranged parallel to the end of the wagon body than to have such devices arranged at an angle to the end of the body.

A further object is to provide a distributcr comprising a plurality of distrilginting n'ieinbers arranged ach at an angle to the line. of tlow of the material to be distributed. the several dist ributers being arranged at angles relatively to each other.

A further object in this connection is to provide a very simple means whereby the several distributing members maybe rotated in unison.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

lfiigurc 'l is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of a fertilizer distributing wagon with my invention applied thereto, the figure also showing in dotted lines a distributor proper mounted behind the primary palverizing and distributing, cyl nder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the construction shown in Fig. 1. and showing in dotted lines the Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 26, 1912. Serial No. 693,382.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

position of the distributing paddles. Fig. :3 is a perspective view of one of the distributing annuli and the bar by which rotary motion is given to it. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view of my invention applied to the distributing paddles. Fig. 5 is 21 crspective, view of the distributing pad les, the improvements for clamping them upon the shaft and the actuating bar. Fig. 6 IS a perspective detail view of the cranked shaft, the collars for carrying the distributing paddles, the figure s owing in dotted lines whereby the paddles are actuated.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

in the acconnmnying drawings. 2 designates a wagon body of any suitable character. the body being supported on the usual wheels 3. Disposed in the rear end of the wagcn body is my improved pnlverizing and spreading device. In the construction lllllS- trated in Fig. 1 and now to be described, my invention is applied to this pulverizing and spreading device, but it may be ,used solely in connection with the distributing portion of the apparatus as will be hereafter explained.

The pnlverizing and spreading construction illustrated comprises a shaft 4 upon which are mounted a plurality of ammli 5,

these annnli being connected to the shaft by" means of radial arms (3 and a hub 7. Any suitable construction may be used for these annuli. the arms and the hub, but I. have illustrated each annulus as being made up of half sections. bolted together and to the arms. I. do not, however, wish to be limited to this construction.

The shaft 4 is a cranked shaft. At; its ends the shaft is supported in bearings 8 mounted in any suitable manner upon the frame of the wagon body but intermediate its ends, the shaft is provided at intervals with cranked portion 9 which are set at an angle to the general direction of the shaft. Preferably the middle of the shaft at 10 extends in line with the extremities of the shaft. and 'u'etcrably the cranked portions J on each side of the middle are inclined in opposite directions. The shaft 4 is hxedshaft. It will be seen from Fig. 2 that the annuli on one side of the middle are set so that their rear ends extend rearward and to the right, while the annuli on the left side of the middle extend toward the rear and to the left.

It Will be obvious that all of the distributing disks or annuli might be made to throw in the same direction, that is, to be arranged parallel to each other, but the preferred construction as above stated is to so mount them'that they will throw to the right and to the left and so mount them that the direction of the hearings on which the distribut ing members are mounted will vary in angularity, this angularity being less near the center and more toward the ends, as illustrated in Fig. 2. In this ,way the distributingmembers near the ends of the shaft will. have, a greater lateral throw than those near the center. For-the purpose of rotating these annuli or pulverizingand distribut-ing members, I have provided the hub of eachannulus with a radially projecting pin designated 11 (see Fig. 3). This pin is disposed in the plane of its corresponding annulus. Extending entirely across the Wagon body is a bar 12 formed with longitudinally extending slots 13, ,one for each pin 11, the pin of each annulus projecting into and through its corresponding slot. The bar 12 is mounted at its ends in rotatable members 1% one of which is shown as carrying a sprocket wheel 14, and these rotatable members may be connected in any suitable manner to the gearing whereby the distributer is driven. Thus the. sprocket wheel may be connected by a sprocket chain to a driving shaft in turn operatively connected to the axle of the Wagon. I have not shown any particular means for this purpose because such a mechanism is well known, and I do not wish to be limited to any particular manner of driving the sprocket Wheels of the bar 12.

Each annulus 5 may be provided with any suitable pins, blades, paddles, teeth or other elements for acting upon, pulverizing and casting the manure. The pins may be set upon the rim of the annulus in a staggered relation, and when so disposed, the pins will act to pulverize and triturate the compost or manure, and will also act to cast it out from the tail of the wagon.

,As stated before, I do not Wish to be limited to any particular construction for the distributing or pulverizing n'ien'ibers. Neither do I wish to be limited to the use of my invention to form the distributing cylinder or beater of a manure spreader as it may be used not onlyfor pulverizing or beating the manure, but for spreading it solely. 1

In dotted lines in Fig. 1, l have illustrated the "invention used as distributer pure and simple, and in this form of the ining supported in brackets 18 or in any other suitable manner upon the sides of the wagon body. The intermediate portions of the shaft between the middle and the ends thereof are bent as previously described so as to provide angular bearings 19 (see Figs. 4c and 6), and mounted upon each angular hearing are a plurality of blades 20.

While I do not wish to be limited to the particular means illustrated for holding the blades upon the shaft, I preferably form the blades with a middle half-collar 21, and providesenncirc'ular half bearings 22 which.

have lateral flanges through which bolts 23 pass, these bolts al's'o entering the blades 20.

By setting up these bolts, the bearings may be closed into Working engagement with the shaft. i

Projecting from one of the bearing members 22 is a radial pin 24:. There is of course one of these radial pins for each set of paddles. Rotatably mounted upon the.

ends of the shafts are the disks 25, which in the form illustrated are shown as sprocket wheels, and carried at its ends on these disks and extending transversely across the wagon is a bar 26 which is parallel to the general direction of the shaft and which is formed with slots 27 into which the pins 24 project in precisely the same manner as heretofore described. These slots are sufiiciently long to permit the pins to oscillate as the bar is carried around the shaft. The movement of the bar around the shaft, which is caused by the rotation of the disks 25, will of course rotate the paddles. These paddles are to be set in precisely the same manner as heretofore described for the annuli, and it will be obviousthat the paddles may be set at any desired angle with relation to each other or with relation to the end of the wagon.

It is to be particularly noted that though the paddles (and the annuli also) throw laterally, the general direction of the shaft on which the paddles operate is transverse of orsquare across the bed of material; li "has heretofore been proposed to provide a number of small distributing members revolving on a shaft, said shaft being in two sections coupledtogether by universal coupling, and the sections being at an angle to each other so that the paddles or other devices mounted upon each section would cast the manure laterally, but in this case the complete shaft would not be parallel to the end of the bed of n'iaterial or to the end offhe wagon, but the shaft would project out therefrom at its middle. "When this device is used either as a primary pulverizing cylinderbr as a repulverizing and distributing cylinder, it would be much better to have the shaft extend straight across the wagon than to have it angul arin form because the material flowing off from a straight cylinder or dis tributer and pulverizing cylinder can flow on oyera straight distributer. Otherwise, the middle of the shaft would be'too far away from the path of the outflowing mate rial, or the outside ends of the shaft would be too close.

It is of course to be understood that my invention is applicable either to heaters used in pulverizing and distributing the fertilizer, or to heaters used in simply spreadiug the fertilize after it has been pulverized and thrown rearward by the primary distributer.

T. do not wish to limit myself to any particular mechanism for operating this device nor to any of the details of etmstrmrtion.

\Vhat 1 claim is:

1. A fertilizer distributing mechanism including a body for holding fertilizer, a shaft extending transversely of the body and parallel to the end of the body, aml a plurality of rotatable heaters mounted upon said shaft, each rotatable in a plane at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the body.

2. A fertilizer distributing mechanism including a body for holding fertilizer, a fixed shaft extending transversely of the body and parallel to the end thereof, a plurality of to tatable heaters rotatably mounted upon said shaft and each beater being rotatable in a plane at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the body, and means for rotating said heaters.

. 3. A fertilizer distributing,mechanism ineluding a body for holding fertilizer. a lixed shaft extending transversely of thebody amt parallel to the end thereof, a plurality of heaters rotatably mounted upon the fixed shaft and each rotatable in a plane at an angle to the ltmgitudinal axis of the body. and means engaging all of said heaters whereby the heaters may be rotated.

4. A fertilizer distributing mechanism ineluding a body for holding fertilizer. a fixed shaft extending transversely of the body and parallel to the end thereof. a plurality of heaters rotatably moulded upon the fixed shaft and each rotatable in a planeat an angle to. the longitudinal axis of the body, rotatable members mounted upon the ends of the shaft. and means mounted upon the rotatable members extending along the shaft and engaging all of said l'ieaters whereby the latter may be rotated in unison with the said rotatable members.

5. A fertilizer distributing mechanism including a body for holding fertilizer, a fixed shaft extending across the body'parallel to the end thereof, said shaft ha ing angular portions in its length forming bearings, and a plurality of rotatable heaters mounted upon said angular portions and being thereby rotatable in planes extending at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the body.

ti. A fertilizer distributer including a body for holding fertilizer, a fixed shaft extending across the body parallel to the end thereof, said shaft being formed with a plu-' ralityof angular portions forming bearings set at an angle to the general direction of a shaft, a plurality of heaters, eaeh rotatably mounted upon one of the angular portions, and means for rotating all of said heaters in unison.

T. A fertilizer distributing mechanism including abody for holding fertilizer, afixed. shaft extending transversely of the body and parallel to the end thereof. said shaft being formed with angular portions on each side of the middle of the shaft, the angular portions on one side of the middle being set refet'scly to the angular portions on the opposite side of the middle. and rotatable beatcrs i'nounted upon said angular portions and rotatable in planes at. an angle to the longitudinal axis of the body.

8. A fertilizer distributing mechanism ineluding a body for holding fertilizer, a fixed shaft extending across the body parallel to the end of the body. said shaft having a straight middle portion and a plurality of angular portions forming bearings having an angular relation to the end of the body, the angular portions on one side of the middle being set reversely to the angular portions on the other side, a plurality of heaters rotatably mounted. each upon one of said angular portions and each rotatable. in a plane at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the beater. a pin projecting from each of the mounted upon the ends of the shaft. and a bar mounted upon the rotatable members and extending parallel to the shaft. said bar having slots within which said pins engage.

beatersf rotatable members 9. fertilizer distributer including a' body for holding fertilizer. a fixed shaft extending transversely of the body, a plurality of heaters rotatably mounted upon the fixed shaft and each rotatable in a plane at; an angle to the longitudinal axis of the body, and means moving in a closed path across and engaging all of said heaters whereby the heaters may be rotated.

in testimonv whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

'IIENRY SYNC/K. [n 5.] Witnesses:

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